Committee of 300

The alleged board of directors of everything, three hundred chairs, never photographed.

The 'Committee of 300' descends from a single 1909 remark by industrialist Walther Rathenau ('three hundred men, all acquainted with each other, control the economic destiny of the Continent') — a complaint about interlocking directorates, weaponized after his 1922 assassination by antisemites who read it as confession. John Coleman's 1991 book built an organizational chart on the phrase with no documentary layer. The node holds the quote's real history: an observation about network concentration that became, via murder and pamphlet, a standing membership list no one has ever produced.